Revealing the unexpected is a major aspect of my practice when working in the etching workshop. Chance and accident are embraced and excite me. I like to work with Carborundum, a gritty sand like substance which is mixed with glue and painted on to areas of the plate. When dry, the area retains ink and gives a rich velvety colour and textured surface.

I also use two further intaglio techniques, Drypoint, where I draw directly into the plate with a sharp tool resulting in mark making and variations in line detail and Etching, a printing process of making designs by the corrosive action of an acid. Combinations of these processes result in abstract, painterly, printed imagery.